WARNING: Contains a sexy former Marine, a stubborn, independent woman, and an incurably romantic BFF with matchmaking tendencies.

Welcome back to Wishful, Mississippi, full of eccentric characters and southern charm, where author Kait Nolan delivers another heart-warming story of a strong, successful woman and the equally strong man who learns how to be her partner.

Liam Montgomery is the last person who’d call himself a hero, but he does have a tendency to try to save the world. Now that he’s left the Marine Corps and returned to Wishful, he feels out of place and unsure of what comes next. He does know one thing: The girl who used to look up to him like a brother is all grown up. No way he can see her as a little sister now. And she won’t give him the time of day.

Riley Gower isn’t holding out for a hero. In fact, a knight in shining armor is the last thing she wants. She’s been watching her mother chase that fairy tale for most of her life, with Riley the one left to pick up the pieces of unhappily ever after. Running Wishful’s downtown pharmacy is a dream Riley’s worked toward for years. Now that the business is finally hers, the realities of the current economy have made it seem like the dream is falling apart. So when her mother calls, expecting yet another rescue, Riley feels like she’s spread thinner than the last pat of butter at Sunday dinner.

It’s hard enough for a woman like Riley to admit she could use a hand, but mixed up with the embarrassment of a childhood crush and the devastating attraction sizzling between them? No way. Liam is determined to help, but taking down insurgents is less complicated than infiltrating Riley’s defenses. This will require reinforcements. And a plan.

Derek Alexander is a retired Marine, ex-cop, and the top investigator in his field. Melissa Jones is a small-town girl trying to escape her troubled past. When the two intersect in a bar in Arizona, their sexual chemistry is off the charts. But what is revealed during their “one week stand” only complicates matters. Because she’ll do everything in her power to get away from the past, but he’ll do everything he can to hold her.

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Stabbed. Burned by a dragon. Abandoned for the windrocs to pick over. The traitor Ra’aba tried to silence Hualiama forever. But he reckoned without the strength of a dragonet’s paw, and the courage of a girl who refused to die. Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama’s beloved kingdom of Fra’anior and restore the King to the Onyx Throne. Flicker, the valiant dragonet. Hualiama, a foundling, adopted into the royal family. The power of a friendship which paid the ultimate price.

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Cry Sanctuary: A battle-weary werewolf finds a reason to fight again when a newly turned wolf seeks sanctuary in Red Rock–a wolf with a dangerous strength she can’t control and an even more dangerous past she can’t escape. Sanctuary Lost: Surrounded by wolves, a human woman must face the choice to remain vulnerable or to become one of them. But power comes with a price. To fully embrace the wolf, she’ll have to accept her new instincts–even the urge to submit. Sanctuary’s Price: There’s no love more forbidden than that between a witch and a werewolf. Can a witch who’s been brutalized by wolves trust one with her heart? Can a wolf who’s survived his own share of pain trust himself–and his instincts–with a fragile human lover?

Journalist Mike Stanhope, divorced and disillusioned with his job, hopes to spice up his life by self-publishing his own mystery novel online, basing it on a true story. His starting point: a real-life encounter with a woman he feels he recognises at the entrance to a train station. But before he knows it, he’s caught up in a sequence of disturbing events that threaten to become just as dramatic as those in his book.